[ale] "shutdown -r now" vs "init 6" vs "reboot"

[Christopher Coleman]

The commands reboots the system immediately without providing users with 
time to close their apps. They work fine on single user systems. On 
multi-user systems, shutdown is used to send a message to users 
indicating the system is going down and give them time to log out.

shutdown -r 10 "system reboot; logout now"

Will reboot the system in 10 minutes. The message in quotes will be sent 
to all logged in users once every minute. When the time is under a 
minute remaining, the message will be sent every few seconds.

Jimmy Oliver wrote:
> Which is the preferred way to reboot a linux box?  I have always used  
> init 6.  The box in question is a RHEL 3 install.  My understanding  
> of the RedHat init scripts was that shutdown just called init 6  
> anyway.  Can someone give the preferred method, and detail the  
> differences between the 3?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> -Jimmy
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